Alec Bruce 
     
     Second Generation 
     
    
   
   
    
     2. Margaret (Maggie) Bruce born ca. 1892, Red Point Prince Edward Island, resided in P.E.1./Ontario, married October 
     
     1910, Walter Burns Young, born January 6, 1890, Kingsboro Prince Edward Isiand, (son of William Young and Melinda 
     
     (Minnie) Burns) resided in P.E.1./Ontario, died August 6, 1956, Toronto Ontario, interred at Toronto Ontario, in the Parklawn 
     
     Cemetery. Margaret died August 3, 1974, Toronto Ontario, interred at Toronto Ontario, in the Parklawn Cemetery. Walter 
     
     resided in Kingsboro until about 1941 when they moved to Toronto where he was employed with the Dominion Bridge and 
     
     Steel Co. He was forced to retire due to illness about two years before he died. 
     
     Children: 
     
     6. i Keith Burns Young born 1911. 
     
     7. — ii Warren Cameron (Rev., Dr.) Young born Dec. 25, 1913. 
     
     8. ili Kathryn Young born ca. 1915. 
     
     9. iv Doris Mildred Young born ca. 1917. 
     
     10. v Dorothy Young born ca. 1917. 
     
     11. viAmy Jean Young. 
     
     12. vii Ruth Young. 
     
     viii Wilbur Wallace Young born March 1919, died June 3, 1919, interred at South Lake Prince Edward 
     
     Island, in the South Lake Church of Christ Cemetery. 
     
     ix Winston Young born ca. 1916, died June 25, 1925, interred at South Lake Prince Edward Island, in the 
     
     South Lake Church of Christ Cemetery. Winston died as the result of a coasting accident. 
     
     x Roma Young born Kingsboro Prince Edward Island, died in infancy, Kingsboro Prince Edward Island. 
     
    
   
   
    
     3. Ellen (Ellie) Bruce born Red Point Prince Edward Island, resided in United States, married Mr. 
     
     Taylor, resided in United States. 
     
     Children: 
     
     13. i Grace Taylor. 
     
    
   
   
    
     4. William George Bruce born 1881, Red Point Prince Edward Island, resided in Charlottetown, 
     
     occupation: Soldier/Customs Officer, married at Toronto Ontario, Gladys Nellie MacFarquhar, born 
     
     1893, resided in Charlottetown, died February 1 1970, interred at Charlottetown Prince Edward 
     
     island, in the Charlottetown People's Cemetery. William died February 7 1951, Charlottetown 
     
     Prince Edward Island, interred at Charlottetown Prince Edward Island, in the Charlottetown SS 
     
     People's Cemetery. At the age of 19 William, or as he was called by all of his friends Billy Bruce, left 
     
     Prince Edward Island to seek work in the West. He worked his way out as far as Fernie British 
     
     Columbia and then back to Winnipeg Manitoba, where he held a position in the grain exchange. 
     
     William owned a roller skating rink in Fernie for a short time. Bruce's Hall may have been what it was 
     
     named. Billy and Gladys had met each other in Fernie. 
     
    

    
     He enlisted in the Canadian Army on August 10, 1914 in the famous 13th. battery. He was later 
     
     transferred to the Third Brigade C.F.A. headquarters in charge of the signalling division. In time he 
     
     was promoted to the rank of Sergeant. The first fighting in World War | in which he took part was 
     
     in the middle of February at Sailly in France. He took part in the heavy action at Neuve Chappelle, 
     
     and the second battle at Ypres. He received his first wound there on April 15, 1915, from a bullet in 
     
     the ankle. He was incapacitated for a few days. On April 22 at Saint-Julien, he was again slightly SAS 
     
     wounded from a shell fragment in his side. Again he spent only a few days in the field hospital. On Sgt. Billy Bruce 
     
     May 22 he was again wounded - this time much more severely. As the story goes, a letter from one 
     
     of the "Fernie Boys" in the French trenches contained the following: 
     
    

    
     ‘Do you remember Billy Bruce of Bruce's Hall? He is out here. We heard a very humorous account of a little escapade in 
     
     which he shared. The chap saw the Canadian trenches being shelled, and watched to see the damage. He saw one shell hit 
     
     fair and square sending up sandbags, earthwork, but the highest of all went a Canadian. Over an estimated eighty feet. On 
     
     his descent, he landed in a tree. It wasn't until five hours or more later he was able to investigate. Dreading what he would 
     
     find, possibly only the mangled remains. When he got to the spot, there was Billy Bruce propped up against the tree with 
     
     both legs shattered by the shrapnel, shrapnel through both hands, and the side of his head. The tree had broken his fall 
     
     and saved his life.’ 
     
    

    
     Sgt. Billy Bruce spent the next 20 months in three hospitals iin England; The Royal Herbert at Woolwich, 
     
     Shorncliffe Military Hospital, and the Granville Special Hospital at Ramsgate. This was only 1915, but by the skilful treatment 
     
     - byhis doctors, they were able to save his legs. At first they were going to take them off, but Billy adamantly refused. The 
     
     surgeons were able to remove two and a half inches of shattered bone from each ankle without injuring the muscles, and 
     
    
   
   
    
         
     
    
   
   
    
     Ohe Bruce Gramily of Red Point Prince Edward sland 1840~1999 21